Border Patrol

The Border Patrol topic provides current news and information about ongoing border protection issues and challenges. The Border Patrol, along with hundreds of local agencies under whose jurisdiction that border falls, are responsible for protecting 8,000 miles of U.S. border, not including many thousands of miles of shoreline.

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The zero-tolerance zone for Operation Streamline has been extended to include all 210 miles of the Del Rio sector and other stretches of Mexico's border with the United States. (AP Photo)A "nightmare" for the due process?